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'Serial Cruisers' Are Buoyed
By Spending Months at Sea

By

Linda K. Nathan Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Jan. 17, 1997 12:23 a.m. ET

Jim and Lucille Cayton just returned from a two-week Christmas cruise to the Caribbean. Friday, they're setting sail again, this time on a three-and-a-half-month, $75,000 trip around the world. Nothing new for them: The Caytons have taken more than 45 cruises in the past five years.

"This is our way of life," Mrs. Cayton says. She and her husband, the retired founder of a vertical-blind company, may have a 15-room, ocean-view home in Pacific Palisades, Calif., but they can hardly call it home. After all, they...